Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 134
"Oh, how unfortunate," said the landlord, wringing his hands. "
Who acts: landlord · What happens: say, wring · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfortunate | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 unfortunate | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfortunate | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 unfortunate | advmod |
| 5 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfortunate | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfortunate | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 landlord | det |
| 10 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wringing | punct |
| 12 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wringing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wringing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the landlord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | the landlord not said here | landlord's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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